Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

- Morgan, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.